From Kurt Schlichter:
It’s kind of a cliché when libs howl that Ron DeSantis is even worse than Trump, but in fact, the governor will be much worse. Trump was elected to stop the elites’ new order. DeSantis will be elected to destroy it because Americans will no longer tolerate leftist intolerance.
Yes.
First go and read what I wrote back in 2020 about this bullshit. I’ll wait, and then you can go below the fold to see the end result.
We’ve often seen those “Before & After” pics of people who’d had enough of being fat, scrawny, etc. and decided to do something about it. Here’s one such, where a woman ballooned after having kids, felt ashamed of herself, and did something about it.
That’s pretty impressive. Here’s another:
But the best I’ve ever seen is this one, where a woman married fat, had kids, and then — twenty years later — ended up looking sensational:
Just… wow. Good for her — and good for her husband, who’s stuck by her through thick and thin [sic].
With only a few exceptions, anyone who knows anything about history and aviation has respect (at worst) and love for the extraordinary De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber-reconnaissance airplane.
As a number of my Readers fall into the history/aviation dork genus, here’s an hour or so of the restoration of a Mozzie. I loved every minute of it.
Even better, in Canada (????). Brilliant stuff.
I had never even heard of this encounter.
Fascinating stuff.
Via Insty comes this report:
In Finland, adolescent males report for a short and intense period of military training, followed by shorter refreshers for most of their adult life. The training is not, as in the Israeli model, a few years of dedicated service. Nor does it emphasize military discipline, such as keeping one’s bunk tidy and shoes polished, or the Prussian-style transformation of citizen-recruit into fighting machine. Instead, it prepares civilians to be ready to join their unit and harass and kill invaders. A country of Finland’s size can rapidly field nearly 1 million trained soldiers.
And they’re doing this right now. One of my Loyal Readers has a spy at Sako, who tells him that we’re not going to be getting new Sako rifles in the U.S. anytime soon, because their entire production is being directed towards “local consumption”. As I posted earlier:
Insty’s final comment on the report is absolutely on the nail, by the way:
“America should do this too.”
I’ve been trying… A Nation Of Riflemen, remember?